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In order to elucidate the distribution of elements in organs from healthy Japanese, instrumental neutron activation analysis (INAA), based on the preliminary examination, was applied to quantitative determination of multielements in nine organs autopsied (brain, heart, kidney, liver, lung, muscle, pancreas, spleen, and thyroid). The following results were obtained: (1) The values obtained for each element could be considered to be representative as "normal values" and "ranges" in organs from healthy Japanese males; (2) the essential elements Br, Cl, Co, Cu, Fe, K, Mn, Na, Rb, Se, and Zn were not affected by external environmental factors or by racial difference; (3) renal and hepatic Cd levels were very high in several cases and the accumulation has still been in progress in the Japanese, whereas the contaminant elements are low in each organ except for lung.
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Katoh, Y., Sato, T. & Yamamoto, Y. Determination of multielement concentrations in normal human organs from the Japanese. Biol Trace Elem Res 90, 57–70 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1385/BTER:90:1-3:57
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